MS CREMEN'S ENGLISH CLASS

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Keep your emoticons in check

Almost 30 years ago Professor Scott Fahlman suggested that the computer science department of Carnegie Mellon University adopt emoticons on its online bulletin board. On 19 September 1982 at 11.44am he changed the way we write, starting with: "I propose that [sic] the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)".  Thus the emoticon was born!  Find outmore from from this Guadian article